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A Communion of Saints
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Meg Withers
Poetry. A COMMUNION OF SAINTS takes us on a harrowing trek through denial, descent, and resurrection in the Honolulu gay community of the 1980s. This book of prose poems, each glossed with a Biblical quotation, is an extended elegy for those who frequented the bar Meg Withers tended. She tends it--and them--still in this echo chamber of voices and stories. The oldest of fi...more
58 pages
Published
April 28th 2008
by Tinfish Press
(first published 2008)
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In 1987 I was a senior in high school, living in a middle-class neighborhood in Los Angeles. That summer before my senior year, there were whispers along the street where I lived-- one of our neighbor's sons, a young man in his early 20's, had come home to die. He had AIDS. Two years later, my first cousin was killed in a terrible accident-- he was only 17 years old. He was not gay, but during the memorial service, the minister, caught up in the heat of his preaching, went off on a tear about t...more
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Where the Saints and Martyrs Really Are
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Withers, Meg. A Communion of Saints. 58p. $14.00 (pb). Tinfish Press. Kāne‘ohe, Hawaii, 2008.
With some books, a peek at the opening signals much of what lies ahead, thematically and qualitatively. Trusting that Meg Withers’ new book announces itself quite well, I give you the following:
…in the beginning was
the queen…not the queen certainly not the word…because they lie…the families this man/woman w...more
Review by Tom Goff
Withers, Meg. A Communion of Saints. 58p. $14.00 (pb). Tinfish Press. Kāne‘ohe, Hawaii, 2008.
With some books, a peek at the opening signals much of what lies ahead, thematically and qualitatively. Trusting that Meg Withers’ new book announces itself quite well, I give you the following:
…in the beginning was
the queen…not the queen certainly not the word…because they lie…the families this man/woman w...more
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